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TriCaster Pro used for live stream of Tower of Youth
11th Annual Teen Digital Reel Showcase and Awards featuring Emmy® Award-winning
3D artist Lee Stringer
San Antonio, Texas -- May 01, 2007 -- NewTek, Inc.,
manufacturer of industry-leading video and 3D animation products, announced that
the 11th Annual Teen Digital Reel Showcase and Awards will be streamed live from
the Crest Theater in Sacramento tomorrow evening, May 2nd beginning at 5:00pm
PST using NewTek's TriCaster Pro™. The Tower of Youth organization gives voice
to teens experimenting with the digital arts and recognizes those efforts
through the annual showcase and awards. Emmy award-winning 3D artist and
producer Lee Stringer will present "Your 21st Century Future Means 3D Literacy."
Viewers may tune into the live stream at:
www.NewTek.com/towerofyouth.
The partnership between NewTek and Tower of Youth provides global visibility
to youth interested in the digital media arts to share their vision with the
widest peer audience possible. Offering Internet broadcast allows the
organizations to not only cultivate digital arts and sciences, but drive home
the power of web streaming.
"I'm just overwhelmed with the opportunity NewTek has provided for us to
expand the reach of our organization," said Tower of Youth founder, William
Bronston, M.D. "My goal is to expose our youth to the specifics of the vast
panorama of applications in the world of work that utilize 3D technology. This
type of technology now goes well beyond the scope of entertainment as digital
media arts literacy moves into all kinds of professions - from architecture to
mathematics - we are now in a world where this genre of education is not only
desired, but required to ensure our future generation will be a part of the
global competitive workforce."
LightWave 3D®, NewTek's Emmy® award-winning 3D animation system has been in
the forefront of Hollywood industry productions along with a broad spectrum of
other critical 3D use scenarios including medical visualization, architecture,
print graphics, industrial design and education. NewTek has a
multi-disciplinary, comprehensive 3D animation curriculum slated for release in
Fall 2007. Most recently, LightWave was used extensively in the production of
visual effects for the box-office blockbuster, "300". Visit
www.LightWave3D.com/profiles/300 for more information.
"These young artists deserve to be recognized for their talent and
contributions, we're happy to help make that possible," says NewTek's vice
president of 3D marketing, Donetta Colboch. "NewTek felt this was a
tremendous opportunity to continue to cultivate our partnership with Tower and
Youth in broadcasting live via the Internet introducing this extraordinary group
of talented students to the world - and now because of TriCaster PRO, a global
audience can be introduced to this wonderful organization and the creative
outlet it provides."
TriCaster PRO is a revolutionary portable live video production device. A
virtual control room the size of a shoe box, the TriCaster PRO is designed for
anyone, including broadcasters, corporate presenters, educators and
municipalities, to reach local and worldwide audiences with
professional-quality, multi-camera video via the Internet. The device costs
$6999, keeping it within the means of many organizations' budgets.
About NewTek
With headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, NewTek is a leading provider of
full-featured video editing, live production, presentation, animation and
special effects tools including LightWave 3D®, winner of the 2003 Primetime
Emmy® Engineering Award, 3D Arsenal™, TriCaster™ and VT[4]™. NewTek launched the
desktop video revolution in 1990 with the release of the legendary Video
Toaster®. The company's products are used worldwide on projects ranging from
home video to feature film. Recent television and film projects using NewTek
production tools include 300, The Guardian, Ant Bully,
The DaVinci Code, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Serenity, Sin
City, Fantastic Four, Drive, The 4400,
Stargate: SG1, Stargate: Atlantis, Battlestar: Galactica,
Prison Break, LOST, CSI, Access Hollywood
and Entertainment Tonight, Recent game titles include Shadow of the
Colossus, Black, Ridge Racer 6, Burnout Revenge,
Driver: Parallel Lines, Quake IV and Heroes of Might and
Magic 6. Website:
www.NewTek.com |
